Science Quotes

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
William a. smith, 1908 - engineering is the science of economy, of...
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert Anson Heinlein
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
Polybius, History
Friedrich nietzsche - undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience...
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - A thing which can never be demonstrated.
Tyron Edwards
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
Dame Rebecca West
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Ricthe
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
Saint Augustine
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark Twain
Art is science made clear.
Jean Cocteau
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
Hasidic Saying
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Albert Einstein
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
Charles Darwin
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Author Unknown
There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
Bill Wulf
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings
The true science and study of man is man.
Pierre Charron
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James F. Clarke
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Frank Herbert
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Bragg
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
General Omar Bradley
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...
Samuel Adams
Science is the record of dead religions.
Oscar Wilde